Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 111
Again a third time did Prince Ivan come back with a blubbered face.
Who acts: third time, Prince Ivan · What happens: do, come back, blubber
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third time, Prince Ivan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ivan | compound |
| 7 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | parataxis |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 face | det |
| 12 | blubbered | blubber | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 face | amod |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | a third time | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come back | present | Prince Ivan | with a blubbered face | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | blubber | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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